Dipayan Dey

Ecosystem services are natural benefits that support the lives and livelihoods of humans and are classified as use and non-use types, for provisioning, regulatory, supportive and cultural features. For the valuation and pricing of intangible non-use ecosystem services, several methods have been proposed, including accounting for loss and damage, or compensating opportunity costs.

La intensa violencia en Manipur, India, representa el último choque étnico y conflicto comunitario en los frágiles terrenos del Himalaya del sur de Asia.

Intense violence in Manipur, India, represents the latest ethnic clash and community conflict in the fragile Himalayan terrains of South Asia. Although the cause of this unrest – and other conflicts before it – appears to be the politics of territorial control over agricultural and ecological resources in the region, its roots can actually be traced back to the climate change impacts that threaten food, water and livelihood security of indigenous communities.